City of Bowling Green v. Ford

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Richardson

Affirming.

Eva Ford, on a trial before a jury was awarded $1,223 damages against the city of Bowling Green. The basis of iier recovery was that the city negligently permitted a hole to be and remain in the street near the entrance to the south side of the city’s park, which caused her to fall and injure her knee. In the “horse and buggy days, ’ ’’ the city had constructed on the street, close to this entrance, a “water trough” which was removed a number of years before Mrs. Ford sustained her injury, and when it was removed its place was in part…